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* InstantSedation: Averted; it takes a moment for Dayna and Tarrant to fall over with a silly expression.
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* InstantSedation: Averted; it takes a moment for Dayna and Tarrant to fall the KnockoutGas if fired over with their heads as a silly expression.mist.
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* InstantSedation: Averted; it takes a moment for Dayna and Tarrant to fall over with a silly expression.
* KnockoutGas: It can fire DeadlyGas too.
* KnockoutGas: It can fire DeadlyGas too.
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* MundaneUtility: Orac gripes when Cally leaves the MasterComputer to operate the teleport.
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* TrueNeutral: Orac has no problem telling Mori the best way to launch an attack on Obsidian. The computer doesn't care about the consequences or which side it works for.
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* KillTheMessenger: Servalan orders the messengers from Bersher killed so [[LeaveNoWitnesses no-one will know]] a Federation force has landed on the planet.
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* StealthInSpace: Servalan's force has to hide from both the Liberator and the detectors on Obsidian, so there's a lot of this.
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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Vila says that some planets have resorted to cannibalism, likely as a result of the weather control damage from the subversion (and later destruction) of Star One.
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* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Vila says that some planets have resorted to cannibalism, likely as a result of the weather control damage from the subversion (and later destruction) of Star One.One, not to mention the subsequent economic and transport disruption from the Federation's collapse.
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* AnswerCut: Hower asks; if Tarrant is looking for recruits and a base of operations, who's he afraid of? Cut to Servalan.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Our heroes will get that base they're looking for in Season 4.
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** Tarrant offers the protection of the Liberator if the Pyroans agree to let them use their planet as a base. Bershar however figures that forming an alliance with Servalan and her battlefleet makes more sense than a ragtag bunch of mercenaries.
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** Tarrant offers the protection of the Liberator if the Pyroans agree to let them use their planet as a base. Bershar however figures that forming an alliance with Servalan and her battlefleet makes more sense than a ragtag bunch of rebels and mercenaries.
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGoodBlatantLies: Mori assures Servalan of his "personal loyalty" to her. From her expression, Servalan doesn't believe a word of it.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: The Pyroans are subject to mild electric shock therapy as infants and constant psychological conditioning as adults to remove any inclination to violence.
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: The Pyroans are subject to mild electric shock therapy as infants and constant psychological conditioning as adults to remove any inclination to violence.
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* DissonantSerenity: Two Pyroans are sent to give Servalan a message from Bershar. [[LeaveNoWitnesses Servalan orders them killed]], and they wait placidly for Mori to do so rather than flee.
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* ContinuityNod: Various references are made to the Galactic War and its consequences.
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* ContinuityNod: Various references are made to the Galactic War and its consequences. The crew are trying to find Blake, who's still missing (though there's no mention of Jenna).
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* DoAnythingRobot: Hower's android fetches drinks, kills dissenters, and breaks ropes with purple rays shot from its hand.
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* StealthInsult
-->'''Avon:''' Dayna says the people are friendly, but then sometimes one's friends can be more of a liability than one's enemies.
-->'''Avon:''' Dayna says the people are friendly, but then sometimes one's friends can be more of a liability than one's enemies.
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* SignatureStyle: "Adrenaline and soma" was a favorite writing tic of Allan Prior.
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* HiddenWeapons: Dayna has a mini stick-grenade tucked into her boot.
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* TryAndFollowTryAndFollow: Mori hides with Orac and Cally in the crater rim, knowing that no-one's going to go looking for them there.
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* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
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* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version. [[TheSociopath Servalan]] doesn't care if the Pyroans carry out their threat, because at least it will stop anyone else controlling a strategic planet.
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* SpacePirates: Tarrant offers Bershar a cut of the 'spoils' they'll get from fighting the Federation. Servalan in turn thinks that without Blake, the crew will have no political agenda and pursue only criminal ends.
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* KillerRobot: How Hower gets round the ThouShaltNotKill brainwashing, apparently. He has the android kill his son.
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* KillerRobot: How Hower gets round the ThouShaltNotKill brainwashing, apparently.brainwashing. He has the android kill his son.
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* {{Narm}}: The effect when two Pyroans are fading and reappearing as they prance across the fields towards Servalan and Mori.
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* {{Narm}}: {{Narm}}:
** The effect when two Pyroans are fading and reappearing as they prance across the fields towards Servalan andMori.Mori.
** The robot with its blinking groin lights.
** The effect when two Pyroans are fading and reappearing as they prance across the fields towards Servalan and
** The robot with its blinking groin lights.
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* TheRemnant of the Federation battlefleet is under Servalan's command.
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* TheRemnant of the Federation battlefleet is under Servalan's command. It's not clear if she's fighting rebels or other factions claiming to represent the Federation, but the fact that Servalan wants to control a planet in a 'strategic' sector implies an ongoing conflict.
* ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: There's reference to the Galactic War, but shouldn't that be Intergalactic War? Unless it wasn't referring to the conflict with the Andromedans, but instead the conflicts that occurred afterwards as the Federation broke up.
* ScienceFictionWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: There's reference to the Galactic War, but shouldn't that be Intergalactic War? Unless it wasn't referring to the conflict with the Andromedans, but instead the conflicts that occurred afterwards as the Federation broke up.
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* BrandishmentBluff: Played straight with Vila (See ICanSeeYou), averted with the Pyroans. The Federation fleet goes to invade thinking the Pyroans will never carry out their threat. They do.
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* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Bershar wanted to form an alliance with Servalan in exchange for helping her capture the Liberator. But Servalan plans to invade Obsidian all along, once Orac gives her a way past their detection system.
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* BBCQuarry: Coupled with StockFootage of a volcano and the appropriate sound and smoke, it works well enough.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Vila says he bribed someone to give him a lower intelligence rating so he wouldn't be drafted as a Federation captain. Avon snarks accordingly.
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* BridgeBunnies: Servalan has her crew of mutoids back, so there's FanDisservice for this one.
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* FingerTenting: At one point Servalan does this with her [[FemmeFatalons long-nailed fingers]] while pondering what to do.
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* {{Narm}}: The effect when two Pyroans are fading and reappearing as they prance across the fields towards Servalan and Mori.
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* KillerRobot: How Hower gets round the ThouShaltNotKill brainwashing, apparently. He has the android kill his son.
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* DrunkWithPower: Commander Mori gets a funny look in his eye when Servalan offers him [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt command of the Liberator if he captures it]].
* IDieFree
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* DrunkWithPower: Commander Mori gets a funny look in his eye when Servalan offers him [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt command of the Liberator if he captures it]].
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* DrunkWithPower: Commander Mori MultitaskedConversation: Avon gets a funny look in Zen to fire at the surrounding Federation ships while ostensibly explaining the ship to his eye when Servalan offers him [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt command captor Mori.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cally is suspicious of theLiberator if he captures it]].[[FakeStatic fragmented call for teleport]], but Vila activates it anyway, letting Mori and his squad onto the Liberator.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Vila says that some planets have resorted to cannibalism, likely as a result of the weather control damage from the subversion (and later destruction) of Star One.
* NotNowKiddo: Cally tries to send a telepathic warning to Avon that soldiers have boarded the Liberator, but he's too focussed on fighting the battle to pick up the thought. She has better luck with Dayna when Mori is holding her prisoner.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cally is suspicious of the
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Vila says that some planets have resorted to cannibalism, likely as a result of the weather control damage from the subversion (and later destruction) of Star One.
* NotNowKiddo: Cally tries to send a telepathic warning to Avon that soldiers have boarded the Liberator, but he's too focussed on fighting the battle to pick up the thought. She has better luck with Dayna when Mori is holding her prisoner.
* TheRemnant of the Federation battlefleet is under Servalan's command.
* ShoutOut: Soma is from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''.
* TalkToTheHand: "My son, the Animal rules you!"
* ShoutOut: Soma is from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''.
* TalkToTheHand: "My son, the Animal rules you!"
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* MultitaskedConversation: Avon gets Zen to fire at the surrounding Federation ships while ostensibly explaining the ship to his captor Mori.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cally is suspicious of the [[FakeStatic fragmented call for teleport]], but Vila activates it anyway, letting Mori and his squad onto the Liberator.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Vila says that some planets have resorted to cannibalism, likely as a result of the weather control damage from the subversion (and later destruction) of Star One.
* NotNowKiddo: Cally tries to send a telepathic warning to Avon that soldiers have boarded the Liberator, but he's too focussed on fighting the battle to pick up the thought. She has better luck with Dayna when Mori is holding her prisoner.
* TheRemnant of the Federation battlefleet is under Servalan's command.
* ShoutOut: Soma is from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''.
* TalkToTheHand: "My son, the Animal rules you!"
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cally is suspicious of the [[FakeStatic fragmented call for teleport]], but Vila activates it anyway, letting Mori and his squad onto the Liberator.
* NoMacGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Vila says that some planets have resorted to cannibalism, likely as a result of the weather control damage from the subversion (and later destruction) of Star One.
* NotNowKiddo: Cally tries to send a telepathic warning to Avon that soldiers have boarded the Liberator, but he's too focussed on fighting the battle to pick up the thought. She has better luck with Dayna when Mori is holding her prisoner.
* TheRemnant of the Federation battlefleet is under Servalan's command.
* ShoutOut: Soma is from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''.
* TalkToTheHand: "My son, the Animal rules you!"
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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood
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* TokenEvilTeammate: An InvokedTrope with Bershar. When told his conditioning wasn't perfect, Hower figured that having one member of their society who wasn't a total pacifist would be useful as a defense.
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* NoMcGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
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* NoMcGuffinNoWinner: NoMacGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
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* ICanSeeYou: Vila [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass of all people]] uses this to deter Servalan from coming back for another attack on the Liberator, [[BrandishmentBluff when in truth their power cells have been drained.]]
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* ICanSeeYou: Vila [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass of all people]] uses this to deter Servalan from coming back for launching another attack on the Liberator, [[BrandishmentBluff when in truth their power cells have been drained.]]
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The Liberator arrives at the planet Obsidian, following a rumor that Blake is there and looking for recruits and a base of operations. Unfortunately Servalan has arrived first, planning to seize both the Liberator and Obsidian. The planet is home to the Pyroans who have adopted a policy of total pacifism, keeping invaders at bay by threatening to destroy the entire planet along with any invasion force. It's a policy that has worked well, until now.
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!!This episode has the following tropes:
* AppealToForce:
** Tarrant offers the protection of the Liberator if the Pyroans agree to let them use their planet as a base. Bershar however figures that forming an alliance with Servalan and her battlefleet makes more sense than a ragtag bunch of mercenaries.
** The Pyroans have a nuclear DoomsdayDevice in the core of their planet, which they announce to any potential invasion fleet will be detonated if they attempt to land.
* ContinuityNod: Various references are made to the Galactic War and its consequences.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Mori has a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath nasty version]] of this trope; Dayna blows him off the crater rim with a grenade and he falls screaming into the lava.
* DoomsdayDevice
* ICanSeeYou: Vila [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass of all people]] uses this to deter Servalan from coming back for another attack on the Liberator, [[BrandishmentBluff when in truth their power cells have been drained.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Adrenaline and soma. It's very relaxing.
* DrunkWithPower: Commander Mori gets a funny look in his eye when Servalan offers him [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt command of the Liberator if he captures it]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not just the crew of the Liberator either. Servalan's officers are looking a bit scruffy, and she's using what looks like an alien vessel (captured from the Andromedans?) as her command ship.
* TemptingFate:
** Avon wonders why the Federation cruisers aren't firing.
-->'''Zen:''' Plasma bolt launched and running.
-->'''Avon:''' Should have kept my mouth shut.
** Vila suggests Avon join him in a drink: "It's very relaxing." ExplosiveInstrumentation ensues.
* MultitaskedConversation: Avon gets Zen to fire at the surrounding Federation ships while ostensibly explaining the ship to his captor Mori.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cally is suspicious of the [[FakeStatic fragmented call for teleport]], but Vila activates it anyway, letting Mori and his squad onto the Liberator.
* NoMcGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Vila says that some planets have resorted to cannibalism, likely as a result of the weather control damage from the subversion (and later destruction) of Star One.
* NotNowKiddo: Cally tries to send a telepathic warning to Avon that soldiers have boarded the Liberator, but he's too focussed on fighting the battle to pick up the thought. She has better luck with Dayna when Mori is holding her prisoner.
* TheRemnant of the Federation battlefleet is under Servalan's command.
* ShoutOut: Soma is from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''.
* TalkToTheHand: "My son, the Animal rules you!"
* WeWillMeetAgain: Servalan decides that the Liberator will keep, as she assumes that without Blake their motivations are merely criminal. So she can afford to ignore them until rule of law has been restored. "Until ''[[ItsAllAboutMe my]]'' law has been restored."
* YouHaveFailedMe: Hower kills his son Bershar when it's revealed he has no intention of keeping to the Vow.
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!!This episode has the following tropes:
* AppealToForce:
** Tarrant offers the protection of the Liberator if the Pyroans agree to let them use their planet as a base. Bershar however figures that forming an alliance with Servalan and her battlefleet makes more sense than a ragtag bunch of mercenaries.
** The Pyroans have a nuclear DoomsdayDevice in the core of their planet, which they announce to any potential invasion fleet will be detonated if they attempt to land.
* ContinuityNod: Various references are made to the Galactic War and its consequences.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Mori has a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath nasty version]] of this trope; Dayna blows him off the crater rim with a grenade and he falls screaming into the lava.
* DoomsdayDevice
* ICanSeeYou: Vila [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass of all people]] uses this to deter Servalan from coming back for another attack on the Liberator, [[BrandishmentBluff when in truth their power cells have been drained.]]
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Adrenaline and soma. It's very relaxing.
* DrunkWithPower: Commander Mori gets a funny look in his eye when Servalan offers him [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt command of the Liberator if he captures it]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Not just the crew of the Liberator either. Servalan's officers are looking a bit scruffy, and she's using what looks like an alien vessel (captured from the Andromedans?) as her command ship.
* TemptingFate:
** Avon wonders why the Federation cruisers aren't firing.
-->'''Zen:''' Plasma bolt launched and running.
-->'''Avon:''' Should have kept my mouth shut.
** Vila suggests Avon join him in a drink: "It's very relaxing." ExplosiveInstrumentation ensues.
* MultitaskedConversation: Avon gets Zen to fire at the surrounding Federation ships while ostensibly explaining the ship to his captor Mori.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Cally is suspicious of the [[FakeStatic fragmented call for teleport]], but Vila activates it anyway, letting Mori and his squad onto the Liberator.
* NoMcGuffinNoWinner: A DarkerAndEdgier version.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: Vila says that some planets have resorted to cannibalism, likely as a result of the weather control damage from the subversion (and later destruction) of Star One.
* NotNowKiddo: Cally tries to send a telepathic warning to Avon that soldiers have boarded the Liberator, but he's too focussed on fighting the battle to pick up the thought. She has better luck with Dayna when Mori is holding her prisoner.
* TheRemnant of the Federation battlefleet is under Servalan's command.
* ShoutOut: Soma is from ''Literature/BraveNewWorld''.
* TalkToTheHand: "My son, the Animal rules you!"
* WeWillMeetAgain: Servalan decides that the Liberator will keep, as she assumes that without Blake their motivations are merely criminal. So she can afford to ignore them until rule of law has been restored. "Until ''[[ItsAllAboutMe my]]'' law has been restored."
* YouHaveFailedMe: Hower kills his son Bershar when it's revealed he has no intention of keeping to the Vow.
